We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
WILLIAM JAMESWe are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
WILLIAM JAMESBoth thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
WILLIAM JAMESThe greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
WILLIAM JAMESTo study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
WILLIAM JAMESWhen you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
WILLIAM JAMESReligion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
WILLIAM JAMESI don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
WILLIAM JAMESA new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
WILLIAM JAMESEffort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
WILLIAM JAMESFocus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
WILLIAM JAMESThe emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
WILLIAM JAMESTension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
WILLIAM JAMESThe ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
WILLIAM JAMESOur beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
WILLIAM JAMESHe who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
WILLIAM JAMESGenius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
WILLIAM JAMES